In this episode, we delve into the controversial topics surrounding climate and carbon emissions. Our host discusses a provocative article from Zero Hedge, challenging the widely accepted views on climate change and the zero-carbon movement. Highlighting the historical temperature records and the role of carbon in our biosphere, the episode questions whether current climate actions are truly beneficial or just a redistribution of wealth. A caller from Colorado stirs the conversation by addressing the cultural controversies surrounding a recent monster truck show, revealing the tensions between personal rights and public sensitivity. This episode also explores the implications of a
00:00:02 Discussion on Climate and Carbon Emissions
And we are back. I was just talking about this article that I read on Zero Hedge today, and it’s fascinating to me what these people really think about the climate and climate change and zero carbon and all that stuff. You know, just to take a break here in this with this zero carbon, do these people not realize that plants need carbon, CO2? I’m not sure they even think about it. And I don’t know. Just because it seems like so counterintuitive to humanity as a whole to want zero emissions, net zero. I don’t understand that. Is that just having enough carbon to raise the crops and that’s it? Or just zero, complete zero, like they don’t want any carbon anywhere in the atmosphere? I don’t understand. Plants and trees and grass and everything else, Our crops, they can’t survive without carbon. We’re carbon, for crying out loud. Anyway, I digress. So this article goes on to say, temperature records for hundreds of millions of years prove that warming periods are a mainstay of the Earth’s climate history. In comparison, our current era is one of the coldest, not the warmest. Climate scientists ignore this data and use temperature records going back to the 1880s. meaning their data is based on a mere 140 years of Earth’s history. The current warming rate is not significant to other periods, nor is there any evidence that human activity is causing it. Data on carbon levels of the past show that temperatures do not necessarily rise in tandem with carbon activity. Carbon emissions are also far lower today than they have been in the past. The claim that carbon concentration due to human activity has a drastic influence on global temperatures is absolutely unfounded. The real reason for climate controls and carbon taxes seems to have far more to do with wealth distribution from developed nations over to developing nations. The agenda is about centralizing the control of national wealth as well as individual liberties and private property. And the IMF, of course, would like to be one of the institutions at the helm of that wealth management empire. So that’s the end of the article. And you guys know how I feel about this stuff. The IMF can get bent. There is so much wrong with all of this push for wind power and solar power and EVs and LED lighting and low-flow toilets and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. But here’s the deal. All of these things have a bigger carbon footprint than just using gas or diesel. I watched an excerpt from a new show from Taylor Sheridan. Maybe you’ve seen it. It’s called Landman. Landman is a show about the oil industry, more specifically the dirty, dangerous side of the oil industry out in the oil fields where the real work happens. And in this scene, the main character, Tommy Norris, played by Billy Bob Thornton, is talking to a gal who appears to be an environmental activist. Now, granted, mind you, I have never seen this show. I just have seen the clips from it and the teasers for it. I’ve never sat down and watched it. I do plan on doing so. And I would play this clip for you, but there is a lot of swearing going on. It would have created a lot of work for Luke and beeping all that stuff out. So I’ll just read it to you without all the F-bombs, okay? So Tommy and this activist are standing in front of a giant wind turbine. And Billy Bob Thornton’s character, Tommy, says, do you know how much diesel they had to burn to mix that much concrete? And he’s talking about the platform, obviously, that the turbine sits on. Or to make that steel and haul this thing out here and put it together with a 450-foot crane. You want to guess how much oil it takes to lubricate that thing or to winterize it? In its 20-year lifespan, it won’t offset the carbon footprint of making it. And don’t get me started on solar panels and the lithium in your Tesla battery. And never mind the fact that if the whole world decided to go electric tomorrow, we don’t have the transmission lines to get the electricity to the cities. It would take 30 years if we started tomorrow. And unfortunately for your grandkids, we have 120-year petroleum-based infrastructure. Our whole lives depend on it. And hell, it’s in everything. That road we came in on, the wheels on every car ever made, including yours, it’s in tennis rackets and lipstick and refrigerator and antihistamines, pretty much anything plastic. Your cell phone case, artificial heart valves, any kind of clothing that’s not made with animal or plant fibers. Soap, hand lotion, garbage bags, fishing boats, you name it, everything. And do you want to know what the kicker is? We’re going to run out of it before we find its replacement. And that’s, of course, I’m going to chime in here because, you know, drilling is being halted and stopped everywhere, including here. Leases aren’t being given, the whole thing. So the climate activist then chimes in and says, it’s the thing that’s going to kill us all as a species. To which Tommy replies, no, the thing that’s going to kill us all is running out before we find an alternative. And believe me, if Exxon thought these things were the future, pointing at the wind turbine they’d be putting them all over the place and then he goes on to he goes on to say getting oil out of the ground is the most dangerous job in the world we don’t do it because we like it we do it because we’ve run out of options and you’re out here trying to find something to blame for the danger besides your boss there ain’t nobody to blame but the demand that we keep pumping it i got a caller on the line what do you got for me
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Hello?
SPEAKER 04 :
Hello.
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Hello. Can you hear me?
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I can.
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Okay. This is Larry from Linden, Colorado. And I just wanted, I need to air out a little bit. Go for it. We had a monster truck show this weekend in Denver. Yeah. And two of our trucks had the Confederate flag on them. And they made us pull them all off of the trucks in order to run. Because one person complained. Wow. How do you combat something like that?
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You know, you don’t. I guess you don’t. I mean, in my world… In running that show and the whole thing, it would be to take that one person and just show them the door. That’s what it means to me.
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Yeah, I guess I don’t know who to be upset with. The gal, I mean, she’s got every right to say what she has to say, but then the promoters, you know, to enforce it.
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Yeah, she’s got every right to be offended and she’s got every right to leave. And that’s the whole thing, and that’s what people don’t seem to understand. That’s what the leftists don’t seem to understand is that just because you’re offended doesn’t negate my right to say what I want to say. So with this monster truck rally, and this particular truck has this Confederate flag, and she didn’t like it, she should have just left.
SPEAKER 02 :
Exactly. Yeah. Okay. I just needed to air that out because it really, really bothered me.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, and I don’t blame you. It bothers me too, so thanks for that.
SPEAKER 02 :
All right. Thank you very much for letting me air out.
SPEAKER 04 :
Thanks, Larry. Yep, you bet.
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Bye-bye.
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So I don’t know. It’s the problem with all this nonsense, this climate nonsense. These activists don’t really think about reality, and they don’t have to. Just like the lady that Larry was just talking about with the Confederate flag and she’s offended. She doesn’t have to think about why she’s offended or what it truly means or what the meaning of the flag is or what it represented or what – just it makes her mad. And so she complained, and then they had to adjust what they’re doing to appease her. And these activists are the same way. I haven’t seen any of these people – speak out and say they’re going to give up their phones and their cars and their lotions and their, you know, their wrapped meat that they get or their vegetables that they get and their bags at Sprouts or whatever. They continue to drive and, you know, speak out on their phones and do their lives and do their stuff. They’re not going to give up stuff. They just want to screech. They don’t know and they don’t care. They just stand at a microphone or a megaphone and they squawk about all of us being dead in 12 years. If we don’t do something, all this stuff started in the sixties and then the seventies, and then it was acid rain. And then it was, you know, the ice caps are melting and then it just, everything just, it goes in cycles and you know what else kind of goes along with that. Every time they come out with a new climate emergency, uh, Taxes go up. Everything gets more expensive because they can do it. They can get away with it. They just do this stuff, and then we have to pay for it. So we have this nonsense going on with the IMF, which don’t even ask me what the International Monetary Fund has to do with the climate. But at the same time, we have this. Okay, this is from the Climate Intelligence Group. Okay. Quote, climate scientists officially declare climate emergency at an end. Climate scientists have issued a shock declaration that the climate emergency is over. a two-day climate conference in Prague organized by the Czech Division of the International Climate Intelligence Group, which took place on November 12th and 13th in the Chamber of Deputies of the Czech Republic in Prague, quote, declares and affirms that the imagined and imaginary climate emergency is at an end. The communique drafted by the eminent… scientists and researchers who spoke at the conference makes it clear that for several decades, climate scientists have systematically exaggerated the influence of CO2 on global temperature. The high-level scientific conference also declared, quote, The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which excludes participants and published papers disagreeing with its narrative, failed to comply with its own error reporting protocol and draws conclusions, some of which are dishonest, should be forthwith dismantled. End quote. The declaration supports the conclusions of the major clientele, which is the climate – that’s the organization that I was just talking about – report, the frozen climate views of the IPCC. It was presented to the conference by Marcel Kroc, clientele’s co-founder. Moreover – The scientists at the conference declared that even if all nations move straight to net zero emissions by the 2050 target date, the world would be only about 0.1 degrees Celsius cooler than with no emissions reduction. So far, the attempts to mitigate climate change by international agreements, such as the Paris Agreement, have made no difference to our influence on climate. since nations such as Russia and China, India and Pakistan continue greatly to expand their combustion of coal, oil and gas. Seems like just the United States have to buckle up and do our part to reduce all this stuff. The cost of achieving that 0.1 degree Celsius reduction in global warming would be two quadrillion equivalent to 20 years worldwide gross domestic product. to quadrillion. Are you guys catching that number? It goes on. Finally, the conference calls up the entire scientific community to cease and desist from its persecution of scientists and researchers who disagree with the current official narrative on climate change and instead to encourage once again the long and noble tradition of free, open, and uncensored scientific research, investigation, publication, and discussion. So the full text of the communique is as follows. The International Scientific Conference on Climate Intelligence Group, that’s the CLINTEL, in the Chamber of Deputies in Czech Republic, blah, blah, blah, has resolved and now declares as follows, that is to say, number one, the modest increase in the atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide that has taken place since the end of the Little Ice Age has been net beneficial to humanity. Did you catch that? Okay, it’s been beneficial. Number two, foreseeable future increases in greenhouse gases in the air will probably also prove net beneficial. Number three, the rate and amplitude of global warming have been and will continue to be appreciably less than climate scientists have long predicted. Number four, the sun and not greenhouse gases has contributed and will continue to contribute the overwhelming majority of global temperature. Number five, geological evidence compellingly suggests that the rate and amplitude of global warming during the industrial era are neither unprecedented nor unusual. Number six, climate models are inherently incapable of telling us anything about how much global warming there will be or about whether to or to what extent the warming has a natural or anthropogenic cause. Number seven, global warming will likely continue to be slow, small, harmless, and net beneficial. Number eight, there is broad agreement among the scientific community that extreme weather events have not increased in frequency, intensity, or duration and are in future unlikely to do so. Number nine, though global population has increased fourfold over the past century, annually averaged deaths attributable to any climate-related or weather-related event have declined by 99%. Number 10, global climate-related financial losses expressed as a percentage of global annual gross domestic product have declined and continue to decline, notwithstanding the increase in built infrastructure in harm’s way. Number 11, despite trillions of dollars spent chiefly in Western countries on emissions abatement, global temperature has continued to rise since 1990. Number 12, even if all nations, rather than chiefly Western nations, were to move directly and together from the current trajectory to net zero emissions by the official target year of 2050, the global warming prevented by that year would be no more than 0.05 to 0.1 Celsius. If the Czech Republic, the host of this conference, were to move directly to net zero emissions by 2050, it would prevent only one out of 4,000 of a degree or one 4,000th of a degree of warming by that target date. Based on pro rata on the estimate by the UK National Grid Authority that preparing the grid for net zero would cost 3.8 trillion, the only such estimate that is properly costed, And on that fact that the grid accounts for 25% of UK emissions and that UK emissions account for 0.8% of global emissions, the global cost of attaining net zero would approach two quadrillion equivalent to 20 years global annual GDP. On any grid where the installed nameplate capacity of wind and solar power exceeds the mean demand on that grid, Adding any further wind or solar power will barely reduce grid CO2 emissions, but will greatly increase the cost of electricity and yet will reduce the revenues earned by both new and existing wind and solar generators. 16, the sources of techno metals required to achieve global net zero emissions are entirely insufficient for one 15-year generation of net zero infrastructure. So that net zero is in practice unattainable. 17, since wind and solar power are costly, intermittent, and more environmentally destructive per capita, terawatt hour, I’m assuming TWH, that’s what that means, generated than any other energy source. Governments should cease to subsidize or to prioritize them and should instead expand coal, gas, and above all, nuclear generation. This is 18, last one. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which excludes participants and published papers disagreeing with its narrative fails to comply with its own error reporting protocol and draws conclusions, some of which are dishonest, should be forthwith dismantled. Therefore, this conference hereby declares and affirms that the imagined and imaginary climate emergency is at an end. This conference calls upon the entire scientific community to cease and desist from its persecution of scientists, researchers, who disagree with the current official narrative on climate change and instead to encourage, once again, the long and noble tradition of free, open, uncensored scientific research, investigation, publication, and discussion. And then there was a list of, I don’t know, 20 or 30 signatures, signatories to this document. So which is it? Which is it? What is it? Is the climate emergency over or do we need to go into lockdown? like COVID on steroids, because we’re all going to die if we don’t. So you see what’s going on here? You see why we can’t believe anything anymore? There’s conflicting things. So this private group in the Czech Republic that had this seminar or summit or whatever you want to call it, They’ve made this decision, and they’ve signed their names to it. But then we have the IMF saying, you know, here we go. We’ve got to go into lockdown because, you know, COVID did this great thing with global emissions, and we’ve got to do that again. Good grief. I mean, call me crazy, but if clean air, land, and water is the goal, you know, maybe they should stop spraying toxic chemicals into the sky every hour of every day of every year. In Germany, I saw a thing earlier today where a pilot refused to spray. He was like, no, not going to do that. So he refused, and he ended up getting arrested and ended up in court because he didn’t want to spray the chemicals, which always leads me back to my question here. I don’t know if you guys have noticed this, but over the last week or so, it has been horrible. Stripes. All over the sky, all day, every day. You can see them in the distance. I get up really early every day with my husband when he goes to work. And I get up at 5, 530, quarter to six, somewhere around there. It’s still dark outside. And I step out to let our dogs out. And there’s literal stripes. There’s stripes in the sky. They’re doing it nonstop. So that might help. I don’t know. Quit spraying toxic chemicals into the air. And people here want to deny that it’s happening. It just shows you the willful ignorance going on in this country. And maybe they could quit putting fluoride, which is a neurotoxin, into the water supply all over the country. There’s a good start. Maybe they could stop spraying our food supply with Monsanto toxic pesticides that seep into the groundwater and pollute the soil. These climate activists that are out here screeching about everything, you know, they’re focused on the wrong things. You know what else is really bad for the environment? War. And that seems to be full steam ahead, right? It doesn’t seem to matter to the leftists who are foaming at the mouth to get us in World War III with Russia. This is from naturalnews.com, and I’m going to have to try to paraphrase this as best I can, but Months remain until President-elect Donald Trump is inaugurated, which means President Joe Biden can still do a lot of damage on the world stage, particularly concerning Russia. Lawmakers in Moscow are responding to the news that Biden just authorized Kiev to use long-range U.S. missiles inside Russia, one of the world’s premier nuclear powers. What could go wrong? Vladimir Dshabarov… The first deputy head of the Russian Upper House’s International Affairs Committee told the test media outlet that what Biden just did represents a very big step towards the start of World War III. The West has decided, this is a quote, the West has decided on such a level of escalation that it could end with the Ukrainian statehood in complete ruins by morning. And then it says Zelensky celebrates by threatening Russia. Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky was so thrilled about what Biden did that he celebrated with the issuance of new threats against Russia. Quote, today there’s a lot of talk in the media about us receiving permission for respective actions, Zelensky said, but strikes are not carried out with words. Such things are not announced. Missiles will speak for themselves. They certainly will. While it’s certainly the case that some people in the United States support Zelensky in Ukraine, many do not, including me, as a side note. And evidenced by Trump receiving both electoral and the popular vote, the American people want peace, not war. The deep state, conversely, wants as much war as possible. It keeps the powers that be wealthy. The masses in poverty and the cash flowing, but it is not what we the people want on X. slash Twitter. You guys know what I’m talking about. Donald Trump Jr. tweeted that the military industrial complex is determined to unleash World War III before my father has a chance to create peace and save lives. So that whole entire thing, and a lot of people don’t even want to talk about it. There’s a lot of news agencies that aren’t talking about it. Nobody seems to be worried about it. I’m worried about it. I’m worried about it. I’m hoping that Putin has some sense to him and that he is respectfully engaged with Trump enough to understand that he’s going to be in, hopefully, sooner than later. Maybe if there’s some shenanigans that take place during the transition and during the inauguration and all that, maybe, I don’t know, maybe if the deep state fights back and doesn’t allow Trump to take office, then maybe he lobs something over here. I don’t know. But it is very frightening to me. And the fact that I’ve got a daughter that’s 25, almost 26 years old, and I have a son-in-law that’s 24, almost 25 years old, and the whole thing, it just bothers me because the word draft comes to mind. And I don’t think anybody wants drafts. If you talk to any leftists on the street, I don’t think that’s something that’s even close to being on their minds. I mean, what would somebody, what would a soy boy leftist do if he was called up for the draft? That’s kind of frightening to think about. So that’s going to do it for me today. Thank you so much for tuning in and spending the last 58 minutes with me. I will be back next Monday, same time, same bat channel. As always, until then, you guys, Mama Glock is going to be out for now. Stop by Franktown Firearms. Take a look around. You’re not going to be disappointed. And we’ll see you next Monday. Take care, everyone. God bless.
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